Tallula: Preserved/GM&O Depot

(Satellite)

Street View, Jun 2023

Ross Brocksmith posted three images with the comment:

GM&O RR Station

Tallula

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Gulfport, Mobile & Ohio Railroad

Illinois has a Tallula, huh?  News to me.  Kinda between Springfield and Beardstown.

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Image Source/Credit: 

Ernest Grassel Collection

Only seen in-person in the Local History Collection

Downtown Branch of Peoria Public Library

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From Grassel’s volume titled  SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS

Bruce Liebe: The depot still stands and is well maintained.

Richard Fiedler shared with the comment: "Gulf Mobile & Ohio depot Tululla IL."

Robert Sullivan: Talulla was on the Jack Line between Bloomington and Jacksonville, closer to Jacksonville

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When the depots still exist, one doesn't need an old aerial photo. But the changes are still interesting.

1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

This is another example of a grain elevator in Illinois growing big even though it lost is railroad.

Street View, Jun 2023

Satellite